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TL;DR The UP2 is a rebadged Drayton LP822, which means that it can operate in 1, 5/2 or 7 day modes, set with a jumper on the back. So if yours is set to 1 day (like mine was) then you can get loads more flexibility by changing that jumper. Background My central heating was […]
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Tags: British Gas, central heating, Drayton, hot water, LP822, manual, timer, UP2
A little while ago I got myself an original[1] Wileyfox Swift to replace my ageing Samsung S4 Mini. The Amazon page I bought it from gave the impression that it would run Android 7, but that page was (and likely still is)[2] really confusing as it covered multiple versions of the Swift line up. The […]
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Tags: android, manual, OTA, recovery, Swift, update, Wileyfox
A colleague asked me the other day how to get started with GitHub on a Windows machine, and I ended up doing a quick screen share to show him my usual setup. Thinking that it’s likely a common question I’ve put together a quick screencast of installing Git Bash and Atom on Windows, and using […]
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Tags: ATOM, bash, git, github, howto, Windows
TL;DR I thought I could put Squid in front of an SSH tunnel, but it can’t do that. Thankfully Polipo can do the trick. Why? I was quite happy when it was just spies that were allowed to spy on me (even if they might have been breaking the law by doing so), but I […]
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Tags: http, IPAct, Polipo, proxy, snoopers charter, SOCKS, Squid, SSH, VPS
Wireless doorbell extension
TL;DR A relay board from eBay combined with a cheap wireless doorbell from Amazon allowed me to extend my existing wired doorbell. Background I got the loft of my house converted into a home office. I love it up there, but if I shut the door (to keep noise out) then I can’t hear the […]
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Tags: bell, door, doorbell, relay, wired, wireless
Copying GPT SSDs
TL;DR Copying the contents of one SSD to a larger one (and making use of the extra space) should be simple, but there are a few gotchas. A combination of AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard and some command line tools got the job done though. Background SSDs have been reasonably cheap for some time, but now […]
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Tags: attributes, clone, copy, diskpart, GPT, migrate, partition, ssd, type, Windows
TV Cable Tidy
TL;DR If you’re putting a TV on a modern open stand then the ancillaries and cables can make a real mess and spoil the overall look. I put a board onto the VESA mount on the back of my TV to hold everything, which then let me arrange the cables into one tidy trunk running […]
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Tags: amp, AV, cable, DVD, DVR, mount, stand, tidy, tv, VESA
Late last year AWS launched Private DNS within Amazon VPC as part of their Route 53 service. This allows customers to create DNS entries that are only visible within a VPC (or group of VPCs). It’s also possible to have ‘split horizon’ DNS where servers inside a VPC get different answers to the same queries versus users […]
Filed under: CohesiveFT, howto, networking | 2 Comments
Tags: aws, Bind, DNS, Route 53, Unbound, VPC
Searching private Gists
I’m a big fan of Github Gist, as it’s an excellent way to store fragments of code and config. Whatever I feel I can make public I do, and all of that stuff is easily searchable. A bunch of my gists are private, sometimes because they contain proprietary information, sometime because they’re for something so […]
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Tags: evernote, gist, github, note, search, sync
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